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June 2020

June 19, 2020

Confessions of a White Ally

Billy Joel and Glass Houses Glass Houses Most of us, at some point in life,...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

Trauma Survivors Have Had It With Hallmark-esque Christmas Stories

Content warning: discussion includes domestic violence, PTSD, gun violence, and stalking. . . ....

November 2019

November 11, 2019

Tattoos, Symbols, and Personal Significance

Two days ago I celebrated my 25th birthday. To mark this important milestone, I finally...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

The Church: Judge and Jailer

You were presented in the beginning As pristine, unblemished, pure one We were instructed so...

June 18, 2019

The Susan B. Anthony List: Paying Protesters in Support of Brett Kavanaugh

Paying Prolife Protesters Back in August (or perhaps even earlier) I started to see...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Francis and the Sultan: Thoughts in the Wake of Christchurch

I was a college student when I first learned that St. Francis of Assisi had...

March 06, 2019

Anger and Grief: Letting Emotions In

Grief. Source: Wikipedia Commons Once, in trauma therapy last year, my counselor mentioned to...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

My Reflection on Christmas Eve: “¿Vas a ponerme bien?”

Trigger Warning: suicide . . . . The neighbor upstairs killed herself last...

February 15, 2019

“Glass” Shatters and Splits even Unbreakable Hopes

This review by a guest contributor goes into details that are spoilers for the trilogy...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Through the Looking Glass

My mom and I were just discussing the bizarre crises of identity this...

January 13, 2019

Dear Church Militant: We Read Books with Explicit Homosexual Content at FUS

My freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, I was required to read books...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

Those Who Showed Me the Face of God This Christmas

This isn't what I thought I'd be publishing today. I'd planned to publish the...

December 25, 2018

Christmas Hallow

I’m not the first person that’s uttered the words, “It’s just not the same without...

November 2018

November 18, 2018

I Meander through Spain, Pondering

I think they live in the past here. A large comfy city built of small...

November 15, 2018

We Are Witches

I've been thinking about witches since autumn began. I never much liked or...

October 2018

October 16, 2018

Houses and Homes and Hauntings

Jessica Mesman Griffith has got me started on a horror binge recently. ...

October 12, 2018

I Was the Administrator

Where were you, He asked me, when my little ones came to you, broken,...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

Spain (AKA, I’m Not Dead Yet)

Hi y'all. No, I'm not dead yet. Yes, I've been a horrible blogger for nearly...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Dad Likes You Powerful, Independent, Just as You Are

Editor's note: At The Shoeless Banshee we have published some strong women's responses (here...

July 25, 2018

Debt-Ridden, Non-Virgin, and Tatted

***Trigger Warning--Self-Harm*** My first tattoo was my golden birthday present to myself (when...

July 22, 2018

My #MedicalMeToo Story

*UPDATE* Dr. Jack Barto, the pediatrician who molested me as a child and later...

July 20, 2018

A Transformed Woman—Rebel, Feminist, and Catholic

Yesterday an image showed up in my Facebook newsfeed: overlaid in front of a...

July 19, 2018

Grace: Consent Required

Grace scares me. There it is, in black and white. I don’t know...

July 05, 2018

Musing Musically: Theresa Williams Reflects on “August and Everything After”

There wasn’t a cloud in the blue sky as my friend and I drove...

July 03, 2018

Hey Good Men. Listen up.

Good men, I’m guessing you have at least one friend in your life who...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

Speaking From Personal Experience: The Visa Process is Hell

How can the baptized claim to welcome Christ if they close the door to...

June 23, 2018

Coming to God like Little Children

“No, sweetie, I’m sure that she doesn’t want your shoe.” The toddler sitting behind...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Heretic Support Group: Squelching in the Existential Mud

Image Source: walknboston on flickr Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in...

May 23, 2018

(Not) Receiving as Protest

Several weeks ago, I read a question-and-answer column in our local Catholic newspaper (or...

May 21, 2018

The Burden of “Traditional Femininity”

What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase “Traditional Femininity”? Maybe...

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